Other Fenton Tidbits

The process used to make these decorative pieces employed a combination of chemicals applied to pressed glass prior to firing. The result was a swirled sheen that was much less expensive to achieve when compared with other types of art glass popular in the early 1900s, such as Tiffany and Stueben.
The real rage in carnival glass production lasted about ten years through 1918. The market for the glass, along with the production, then moved overseas to countries like England, Australia, Germany and Czechoslovakia where it was made and sold throughout the 1920s and into the '30s.